Ailill as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Ailill

What is the meaning of the name Ailill ?

The baby name Ailill is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced AL-yil.

Ailill is in Origin.

Ailill is an Old Irish masculine name, first visible in early medieval Irish saga and genealogical material in the form Ailill, with genitive Ailella. Its usual scholarly gloss links it with Old Irish aille, beauty or loveliness, rather than the later internet gloss elf. The doubled final consonant belongs to Old Irish spelling and inflection, not to a transparent modern suffix.

The name is especially associated with Ailill mac Máta, king of Connacht and husband of Medb in the Ulster Cycle, and with several legendary or early medieval Irish kings, bishops, and dynastic figures. Spellings such as Ailell, Oilioll, and Oilill reflect manuscript and later Irish orthographic variation. Once familiar in learned Gaelic tradition, Ailill is now rare outside specialist interest in early Irish literature and is not ranked in recent U.S. birth data.

⚙ Ailill is a genuine rarity. We hold just 2 recorded uses of it, from 2 countries.